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Excerpt: ...and apparently beside the window-frame, that frame will only be felt or seen as a vague, flitting, obscure interruption to whatever is perceived beyond it. A little attention directed to this fact will convince every one of its universality, and prove beyond dispute that objects at unequal distances cannot be seen together, not from the intervention of air or mist, but from the impossibility of the rays proceeding from both, converging to the same focus, so that the whole impression, either of one or the other, must necessarily be confused, indistinct, and inadequate. But, be it observed (and I have only to request that whatever I say may be tested by immediate experiment, ) the difference of focus necessary is greatest within the first five hundred yards, 3. Especially such as are both comparatively near. and therefore, though it is totally impossible to see an object ten yards from the eye, and one a quarter of a mile beyond it, at the same moment, it is perfectly possible to see one a quarter of a mile off, and one five miles beyond it, at the same moment. The consequence of this is, practically, that in a real landscape, we can see the whole of what would be called the middle distance and distance together, with facility and clearness; but while we do so we can see nothing in the foreground beyond a vague and indistinct arrangement of lines and colors; and that if, on the contrary, we look at any foreground object, so as to receive a distinct impression of it, the distance and middle distance become all disorder and mystery. Page 187 And therefore, if in a painting our foreground is anything, our distance must be nothing, and vice versa; for if we represent our near and distant objects as giving both at once that distinct 4. In painting, therefore, either the foreground or distance must be partially sacrificed. image to the eye, which we receive in nature from each, when we look at them separately;24 and if we distinguish them from each...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153822596 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153822598 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $27.46 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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